Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents an integrative relational approach to treating trauma and psychological entanglements through autobiographical, philosophical, and clinical reflections on the transgenerational dimension of the human experience and the self as an irreducible core of the person.
The book commences with the authorâs own journey growing up in a Jewish family deeply affected by transgenerational trauma from the Holocaust, providing an inspiring and reflective backdrop to the bookâs contents. Isaac Pizer then describes and explains his philosophy of therapy, which holds psychotherapy and the treatment of trauma as a relational process that requires an inclusive awareness of the following dimensions of human experiencing: the physical; intrapsychic; relational; transgenerational; transpersonal. Exploring a psychotherapy which holds and integrates transgenerational awareness in the treatment of complex trauma, the book is supplemented with case studies and the authorâs own experien